Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
Episodes to download
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The Age We Made - Part 2
Mon 29 Oct 2012
Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?
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End of Drug Discovery
Mon 15 Oct 2012
Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us
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The sound of deafness
Mon 24 Sep 2012
The science of hearing; cochlear implants; the sound of deafness
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Darwin's Tunes
Mon 17 Sep 2012
Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect tune?
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Frankenstein's Moon
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Lunar and stellar insights on Hamlet and Frankenstein. Astronomy and literature collide.
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Episode 3—Scott's Legacy
Sat 8 Sep 2012
3/2 Why do we need to send people to explore Mars 鈥� and who is likely to take them there?
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The Life Scientific : Lloyd Peck - Antarctic Scientist
Mon 3 Sep 2012
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
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Episode 2—Scott's Legacy
Sat 1 Sep 2012
2/2 Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the moon?
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The Life Scientific : Barbara Sahakian - Neuroscientist
Mon 27 Aug 2012
Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian about her Life Scientific.
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Episode 1—Scott's Legacy
Fri 17 Aug 2012
1/2 Amundsen may have beaten Scott to the South Pole but science was the real winner
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Saving the Ganges River Dolphin
Mon 13 Aug 2012
On the Brahmaputra, counting and saving the Ganges River Dolphin.
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Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars
Mon 6 Aug 2012
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars 鈥� the search for extraterrestrial life steps up.
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Future Flight: Prog 2 of 2
Mon 30 Jul 2012
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who are designing flying cars and green aircraft.
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Future Flight: Prog 1 of 2
Mon 23 Jul 2012
Gareth Mitchell meets the engineers who will transform the way we fly around the world.
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Artificial Photosynthesis
Mon 16 Jul 2012
Prof Andrea Sella reports on the race to better nature at harnessing the sun's energy.
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Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode Two
Mon 25 Jun 2012
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.
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Legacy Of Alan Turing - Episode One
Mon 18 Jun 2012
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer
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Flu
Mon 11 Jun 2012
Suppressed research into how bird flu could become more infectious has now been released.
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Transit of Venus 2012
Mon 4 Jun 2012
Marek Kukula explores the science behind the Transit of Venus 2012.
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28/05/2012 GMT
Mon 28 May 2012
Physicist Tejinder Virdee on the search for the elusive Higgs boson at Cern.
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Hurricane Rash
Mon 21 May 2012
Kevin Fong looks at the birth of plastic surgery and its links to the air battles of WWII.
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The Science of Morality
Mon 14 May 2012
Carinne Piekema explores the science of moral behaviour and the ethical issues this raises
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1000 Days: A Legacy of Life
Mon 7 May 2012
Could health depend on what happens in the womb? Mark Porter reports on this new idea.
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Scott's Legacy: Programme 3 - Mars
Mon 30 Apr 2012
Why do we need to send people to explore Mars 鈥� and who is likely to take them there?
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Scott's Legacy: Programme 2 - Moon
Mon 23 Apr 2012
Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the Moon?
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Scott's Legacy: Programme 1 - Antarctica
Mon 16 Apr 2012
Amundsen may have beaten Scott to the South Pole but science was the real winner.
Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
